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Mr. Michael Stevens Helfer serves as the Corporate Secretary and General Counsel of Citigroup Finance Canada Inc. Mr. Helfer served as Corporate Secretary and General Counsel of Citigroup Inc. since February 2003. Mr. Helfer served as the Chief Strategic Officer and Executive Vice President of Nationwide. He served as an Executive Vice President of Nationwide Financial Services Inc., from 2000 to 2003. He served as Chief of Strategic Investments at Nationwide Insurance. ... Mr. Helfer was a Partner and served as Head of Financial Institutions practice group of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. He clerked for Chief Judge David Bazelon (D.C. Cir.) and served as Counsel for the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Mr. Helfer served as President of Legal Aid Society in Washington, D.C. He served as Chairman of the New York Clearing House Association and the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia. He served as Vice Chairman of Citigroup Inc. since June 2012. He has been an Independent Director of EP Energy Corporation since January 16, 2014. He serves as an Non-Independent Director of Grupo Financiero Banamex, S.A. de C.V. He serves as a Director of the Legal Aid Society of NY and of the Lincoln Center Theatre. He is a Founding Member of the Board of Directors of Lawyers for Children America. He served as Director of Lincoln Center Theater and Trustee of the Wexner Center for the Arts. Mr. Helfer is a Member of the Financial Services Roundtable and the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Mr. Helfer holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Economics from Claremont Men's College. He hold a Degree in Law from Harvard University.

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